How Close Did Hitler Come To Nuclear Weapons? | Secrets Of The Third Reich | Timeline

This will be a good one to fall asleep to.. night night everyone

Imagine paying for YouTube premium just to have the channel force feed ads into their own videos with editing so that you can't escape the constant interruption every 5 minutes because beating it into your head at the beginning of the video just wasn't enough so they decide 5-10 times is the charm. Thereby completely defeating the purpose of bringing people to your channel by making the ads so constant and disrupting that your videos aren't even enjoyable and people will not only not watch them but they'll actually avoid any related content from this channel altogether well done lads well done.

75 years later, and WW2 doesn’t seize to surprise! How many stories we shall never know.

Perfect to fall asleep to. A good sleep video has to be just interesting enough to get you to care but not so riveting that it keeps you awake.

I cannot get enough of these ww2 docs

I love watching history documentary. You’re able to learn so much that still applies to what we’re dealing with today

What a spectacular timeless documentary!! Bravo to everyone involved in producing this!!

I'm surprised you did not mention any constructions made in Poland: Książ Castle and its underground structures... Riese complex, not far away from Książ... The site inside the mountains is uncovered in few percent. There is a solid ground to believe that what you are looking for in this episode was there.

The Germans scientists knew that A bomb can explode by using Uranium in lieu of Plutonium. Uranium ore was available in German Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia tewn of Jachymov. The Germans built a reactor, possessed heavy water and knew how to split atom since 1938. The fact that the Germans ran out of time to complete a nuclear weapon, was good and lucky for the World.

It doesn’t matter because when told about the possibility, even at the end of the war he replied “stop it. I won’t hear of it. Do you know the kind of destruction that would mean?” Similar to his orders regarding the tons of chemical weapons they had. Not to be touched, moved, or even suggested.

Amazing production and narration. Concise and informative. Way to go Timeline, make more of these instead of just having some guy talking at us like we are in his lecture hall. Amazing production value very great quality congratulations!

From Wiki - The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during the Second World War from Skis Against the Atom, the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haukelid.

In the Manhattan project, Fermi built a reactor with only natural uranium and Graphite moderator. (Allies destroying heavy water was to send them in the wrong direction.)

It took 25% of all energy produced in the United states between 1941 and 44 to produce 2 atomic bombs ! It also took all of the silver , so German could not afford to do it or produce enough energy for one bomb !

Germans during the war had mainly an energy supply problem so their closest nuclear aim was a nuclear reactor. They still had some important way to cover until the chain nuclear reaction, to sustain an explosion , but they had the feeling , but not the experience , it was somewhere close . The problem was actually solved by a german scientist working in Los Alamos at that time !

Maybe the Norwegians should be given more credit for stopping the Nazi's from building an atomic bomb.

This has long been understood to be in short: not close. Reference the note at 16:40. Even in the excerpt not highlighted you can get context clues. They were disrupted at every stage, most of which a reactor. But bombing raids wouldn’t have allowed them to finish regardless. Hence the “nevertheless”

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It's interesting to see that Bane branched out into narrating documentaries.